Praised for her "robust and luxuriant tone", American soprano Caroline Corrales is an operatic star on the rise. She is a first-year Adler Fellow with The San Francisco Opera, where she made her mainstage debut, to great acclaim, as Moira in The Handmaid's Tale in September 2024. Other roles with The San Francisco Opera include Erste Dame (cover) in Die Zauberflöte, and Mimi in Boheme out of the Box. She looks forward to making her house debut with Opera Naples as Mimi in La Bohéme in March 2025.
A 2023 participant in the esteemed Merola Opera Program, her performances included the role of Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, and scenes as Amelia in Simon Boccanegra and Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes. In the 2022 Season, Ms. Corrales was an Apprentice Singer of The Santa Fe Opera. She was featured in the Apprentice Scenes as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, as well as the mainstage ensembles of Carmen, Falstaff, and M. Butterfly (world premiere),
An avid competitor, Ms. Corrales was most recently seen as a Grant Winner in the Pasadena Vocal Competition, and as a Finalist in the McCammon Voice Competition. Notably, she was a New York City District Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (2021-2022), and a Grand Finalist in the Concurso Internacional de Canto Tenor Viñas (2022). She has twice been named the Boston District Winner and New England Region Encouragement Award Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (2019-2020, 2020-2021). Other recent awards include Semifinalist in the Houston Saengerbund Vocal Competition (2021), Finalist in the National Opera Association Vocal Competition (2021), Semifinalist in the Camerata Bardi International Vocal Competition (2021), and Second Prize in the Orpheus Vocal Competition (2020).
Ms. Corrales regularly performs in concert, and most recently has performed in the Holiday Pops! Concerts Series with The Boston Pops Symphony. Other recent concert engagements include Soloist, Verdi Inno delle Nazioni, Soloist (cover) Verdi Requiem, Soloist, Orff Carmina Burana, and Soloist, Handel The Messiah.
Ms. Corrales received her operatic training as a Young Artist with the Boston University Opera Institute. Her roles at the Institute include Ma Zegner in Proving Up, Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park, Anne Trulove in The Rake's Progress, and scenes as Contessa Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, and the title character in Rusalka.
Ms. Corrales holds a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Boston University, and a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Webster University. She currently resides in San Francisco, California.